INDEX TO VOL. I.
Abolition of African servitude; its first public agitation, [33];
activity of the propagandists, [34];
misuse of the sacred word liberty, [34].
Absurdity of the construction, attempted to be put on expressions of the Constitution, [175];
a brief analysis, [175].
Accede, discussions on the word, [136];
its former use, [137].
Adams, James H, commissioner from South Carolina to Washington, [213].
Adams, John, stumbled at the preamble of the Constitution, [121].
Adams, John Quincy, his declaration of the rights of the people of the States, [190], [191].
African servitude, its aid to the Confederacy in the war, [303];
confidence of the people in the Africans, [303].
Agreement, between Generals Harney and Price, at St. Louis, Missouri, [416].
Agricultural products, Southern, mainly for export, [302];
a change of habits in the planters required, [302];
our success largely due to African servitude, [303];
condition of the Africans, [303];
diminished every year during the war, [505].
Alabama, withdraws from the Union, [220].
All powers not delegated, etc., what does it mean? [175].
Allegiance, inconsistent ideas of, [182];
paramount to the Government, a monstrous view, [182];
the sovereign is the people, [182];
obligation to support a Constitution derived from the allegiance due to the sovereign, [183];
oath to support the Constitution based on the sovereignty of the States, [183];
the oath of military and naval officers, [183];
how false to attribute "treason" to the Southern States, [183];
an oath to support the Constitution, [183].
Amendment of the Constitution, distinct from the delegation of power, [196].
Anderson, Robert, commands forts in Charleston Harbor, [212];
instructions from the War Department of the United States, [212];
removes to Fort Sumter, [213];
acquaintance and past associations with the author, [216];
his protest against relieving Fort Sumter, [281];
the letter of protest, [282];
reply to the demand for evacuation, [286].
Annapolis, Maryland, first meeting of the commissioners to revise Articles of Confederation held there, [87];
how revision was effected, [88].
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery, terms misleading the sympathies and opinions of the world, [6].
Armories, the chief, where located, [480].
Armory at Harper's Ferry, burned by order of the United States Government, [317];
a breach of pledges, [317];
machinery and materials largely saved, [317];
removed to Richmond, [317];
and Fayetteville, North Carolina, [317];
Armorer Ball, his skill and fate, [318].
Arms and ammunition, arrangements for the purchase of, [311];
agent sent to Europe, [311];
do. sent North, [311];
letter to Admiral Semmes, [311].
Army officers choose their future place of service in disintegration of the army, [306];
act of Confederate Congress relative to, [307].
Arms within the limits of the Confederacy in 1861, [471];
do. powder, [472];
do. arsenals, [472];
cannon-foundries, [472];
the increased supply, [476].
Army, Confederate, its organization, instruction, and equipment, the first object, [303];
provisions of the first bill of Congress, [304];
its modification for twelve months' men, [304];
fifth section of the act, [304];
system of organization, [305];
acts of Congress providing for its organization, [305];
act to establish army of Confederate States, [306];
its provisions, [306];
the army belongs to the States, and its officers return to the States on its disintegration, [306];
provision securing rank to officers of the United States Army, [307];
the constitutional view, [307];
how observed, [307];
Generals appointed, [308];
efforts to increase the efficiency of, [384];
desire to employ the available force, [384];
organization of—early circumstances relating to it, [443];
the largest army in 1861 that of the Potomac, [443];
act of Congress relating to organization, [444];
the right to preserve for volunteers the character of State troops surrendered by the States, [444];
efforts to comply with the law, [444];
obstruction to its execution, [444];
correspondence, [444].
Arrest, threats of, against Senators withdrawing from Congress, [226].
Arrest and imprisonment of police authorities of Baltimore, [334].
Arsenals, contents of, in 1861, [471];
do. in Richmond, [479].
Artillery, extent of its manufacture, [473].
Assault on us, The, made by the hostile descent of the fleet to relieve Fort Sumter, [292].
Assertions, of Everett and Motley examined, [130].
Baker, Edward, Colonel, killed at Ball's Bluff, [437].
Ball, Armistead, master armorer at Harper's Ferry, [317];
his gallant services, [317];
his capacity and fidelity, [318].
Ball's Bluff, defeat of the enemy at, [437];
losses, [437].
Baltimore, manly effort of her citizens to resist the progress of the armies of invasion, [299];
occupied by United States troops, [333];
the city disarmed, [334];
arrest and imprisonment of police commissioners by General Banks, [334-5];
provost-marshal appointed, [334];
search for and seizure of arms, [335];
report of a committee of the Legislature on the arrests, [335].
Banks, Major-General, unlawful proceeding of, in Baltimore, [334].
Bargain, A, can not be broken on one side, says Webster, and still bind the other side, [167].
Barnwell, Robert W., commissioner from South Carolina to Washington, [213];
offered the place of Secretary of State under Provisional Constitution, [241].
Bartow, Colonel, killed at Manassas, [357].
Beauregard, General P. G. T., correspondence with the Confederate Government relative to Fort Sumter, [285], [286-287];
demands its evacuation; commands army at Manassas, [340];
orders troops from left to right at Manassas, [352];
his promotion, [359];
his statement of the defenses of Washington, [360];
report of the battle of Manassas, [368];
endorsement of the President, [369].
Bee, General Bernard, wounded at Manassas, [357].
Bell, John, nominated for the Presidency in 1860, [50];
offers to withdraw, [52].
Belmont, Missouri, occupied by Federal troops, [403];
afterward garrisoned by Confederate troops, [403];
Grant attempts to surprise the garrison, [403];
the battle that ensued, [404].
Benjamin, Judah P., Attorney-General under Provisional Constitution, [242].
"Bible and Sharpe's rifles," declaration of a famous preacher, [29].
"Bloodletting, A little more," the letter recommending, [249].
Bond of Union, A, necessary after the Declaration of Independence, [193];
Articles of Confederation followed, [193];
how amended, [193];
difference in the new form of government from the old one, [194];
the same principle for obtaining grants of power in both, [194];
amendments made more easy, [195].
Border States promptly accede to the proposition of Virginia for a Congress to adjust controversies, [248];
secession of the, [328].
Bonham, General, marches to Virginia with his brigade on her secession, [300];
commands brigade at Manassas, [353];
proposal that he shall pursue the enemy, [353].
Bowling Green, Kentucky, occupied by General Johnston, [406].
Breckinridge, John C., nominated for the Presidency in 1860, [50];
willing to withdraw, [52];
ex-Vice-President of United States, [399];
his address to the citizens of Kentucky, [399].
Brown, John, his raid into Virginia, [41];
how viewed, [41];
report of United States Senate committee, [41].
Brown, Mayor of Baltimore, visits with citizens President Lincoln, [332];
his report, [332].
Buchanan, President, his views and action in 1860, [54];
his objection to withdrawing the garrison from the forts in Charleston Harbor, [215];
opposed to the coercion of States, [216];
view of the cession of a site for a fort, [217];
hope to avert a collision, [217];
message to Congress, with letter of South Carolina commissioners, and his answer, [218];
his alarm at the state of affairs, [265].
Butler, Major-General B. F., occupies Baltimore with troops, [333].
Cabell, W. L., statement of field transportation at Manassas, [383].
Cabinet of the President under the Provisional Constitution, [241].
Cabinet, Mr. Lincoln's, a transaction in, [276].
Calhoun, John C., his death, [17];
remarks of Mr. Webster, [17];
anecdote, [17];
extract from his speech, "How to save the Union," [55].
California, circumstances of its admission to the Union, [16].
Campbell, J. A. P., letter relative to the views of the Provisional President, [238].
Camp Jackson surrounded by General Lyon's force, [414];
massacre at, [416].
Campbell, Judge, his statement relative to the intercourse between our commissioners and the Federal State Department, [267], [268];
his own views, [268], [269].
Capon Springs, speech of Webster at, [167].
Cass, Lewis, his "Nicholson letter," [38];
resigns as United States Secretary of State, [214];
his reason, [214].
Causes which led the Southern States into the position they held at the close of 1860, recapitulation of, [77].
Cavils, verbal, relative to the Constitution and the Articles of Confederation, [135], [136].
Centralism, its fate in the Constitutional Convention, [161].
Centreville, conflagration at, [467];
retreat from, [468].
Change of government, a question that the States had the power to decide, by virtue of the unalienable rights announced in the Declaration of Independence, [438].
Chandler, Z., his letter on a "little more bloodletting," [249].
Charleston Harbor defenses, a subject of anxiety in the secession of the State, [212];
Representatives in Congress call on the President, [212];
proposal to observe a peaceful military status, [212];
secret preparations for reënforcement by United States Government, [212];
nstructions to the commander, [212];
modified, [213];
commissioners sent by the State to treat for the delivery of the forts, [213];
change of military condition in the harbor, [213];
how regarded, [213];
interview of commissioners with President, [214];
sharp correspondence, [214].
Chesnut, James, letter on the election of Provisional President, [289].
Clark, John B., of Missouri, letter from President Davis, [427].
Clause second of Article VI of the Constitution, adduced by the friends of centralism, [149];
how magnified and perverted, [150].
Clay, C. C., letter relative to certain misstatements relative to the author, [206-208].
Clayton, Alexander M., letter relative to the election of Provisional President, [237].
Coercion of a State, views in 1850, [55];
do. 1860, [55];
declaration of the Convention that framed the Constitution, [56];
other declarations, [56];
the idea absolutely excluded, [101];
the alternative of secession, if no such right exists, [177];
the proposition before the Convention, [177];
views of the delegates, [177];
coercion military, treated with abhorrence, [179];
the right to, repudiated, [252], [253];
language of the New York press, [253];
do. of Northern speeches, [254];
do. of Thayer, [254];
remarks of Governor Seymour, [255];
do. of Chancellor Walworth, [255];
do. of the Northern press, [256];
words of Mr. Lincoln in his inaugural, [256];
views of Southern people, [257].
Columbus, Kentucky, occupation by Confederate forces, [402].
Commissioners to the United States appointed, [246];
nature of, [246];
how treated, [247];
negotiations of Judges Nelson and Campbell, [267];
statement of Judge Campbell, [268];
his views, [268];
declarations of Mr. Seward, [268];
his assurances, [269];
expectations of the commissioners and of the Confederate Government, [269];
pledge given by Federal authorities, [270];
telegram to General Beauregard, [270];
his reply, [270];
explanations of Mr. Seward, [270];
plan to reënforce and supply Sumter, [271];
proceedings for its execution by Secretary Fox, [271];
facts presented to Mr. Seward, [273];
the point of honor, [273];
further declarations of Mr. Seward, [273];
official notification from Washington to Governor Pickens and General Beauregard, [274];
letter to President Buchanan, [264];
their arrival, [264];
incidents, [265];
letter of Judge Crawford describing his reception, [265];
arrival of Mr. Forsyth—their letter to Mr. Seward, [266];
no answer received for twenty-seven days, [266];
a paper filed in the State Department, [266];
an oral answer, [266];
state of affairs relative to Fort Sumter, [266], [267];
their letters to General Beauregard, [277], [278];
failure of their mission, [296].
Commissioners from South Carolina to President Buchanan relative to the delivery of the forts in Charleston Harbor, [213].
Community independence, its origin and development, [116].
Compact, The original, causes that blighted its fair prospects, [48];
the Articles of Confederation a compact, [135];
been denied of the Constitution, [135];
denied by Webster, [135];
cavils on the words of the Constitution compared with the Articles of Confederation, [136];
the wood accede considered, [136];
use of the words "compact, accede, Confederacy," [137];
compact used by Gerry, Morris, Madison, Washington, Martin, and others, [138];
in the ratification of Massachusetts, [137];
the Constitution shown to be one by its structure, [140];
provisions, [140];
representation in the Senate, etc., [140].
Compromise measures of 1850, their origin, [14];
bear the impress of the sectional spirit, [14].
Compromise, Missouri, how constituted, [13];
votes on, [13].
Confederacies, the first local formed in New England, [115].
Confederacy, the growth of, [485];
financial system of, [485];
the state of the finances in 1862, [485].
Confederate Government, its instructions to General Beauregard relative to Fort Sumter, [284];
the correspondence, [285], [286];
aid given to Missouri, [429].
Confederation, The old, declares independence of each State, [86];
its articles, [86];
affairs, how managed, [87];
the first idea of reorganization, [87];
consequences, [87];
term applied to the articles, [88];
revision, how effected, [88];
how could it be superseded without secession? [100].
Conference of the President and generals, after the victory at Manassas, [352];
order to pursue the enemy, [353];
letter of the President respecting, [353];
answer from General Beauregard, [354], [355];
subjects considered, [356];
second do. of the President and generals, after the victory at Manassas, inquiry as to what more it was practicable to do, [360];
fortifications said to exist at Washington, [360];
subsequent reports, [360];
at variance with the information then possessed, [360];
why an advance was not contemplated to south bank of Potomac, [360];
returns to Richmond to increase army, [361];
charge of preventing the pursuit, [361].
Congress of the Confederation, its distinction from the United States Congress, [26];
language of its resolution for a revision of its articles, [88];
its recommendation, [89];
instructions to the commissioners to the Constitutional Convention by the several States, [89];
early acts of, [243];
laws of United States not inconsistent continued in force till altered, [243];
financial officers continued in office, [243];
early steps required to be taken for a settlement with United States, [244];
act relative to free navigation of the Mississippi River, [245];
coasting trade opened to foreign vessels, [245];
resolutions after the victory at Manassas, [383].
Congress, Provisional, of seceding States assembles at Montgomery, [220];
resolution to remove the seat of government to Richmond, [339].
Congress of the Confederation and that of the United States, difference between, [10], [11].
Congress, United States, decision on first abolition petition, [5];
prohibits importation of slaves, vote on the bill, [5];
its action on the petition of Indiana Territory for the suspension of the ordinance prohibiting slavery, [8];
report of the committee, [8];
future action on resolutions, [10];
has only delegated powers, [26];
action in the Senate in 1860-'61, [68];
action of its committee, [69];
failures of adjustment in the House, [70].
Connecticut, instructions to her delegates to the Constitutional Convention, [92];
her ratification of the Federal Constitution, [107].
"Constitution, The, a covenant with hell," use of the expression, [56];
signification of the word, [88];
the seventh article, a provision for secession, [101];
not established by the people in the aggregate, nor by the States in the aggregate, [101];
delegates were chosen by the States as States, and voted as States, [102];
object for which they were sent, [102];
terms used then in the same sense as now, [102];
a national Government distinctly rejected, [102];
final words of the Constitution, [102];
not adopted by the people in the aggregate, [114];
the assertion a monstrous fiction, [114];
as British colonies they did not constitute one people, [114];
confused views of Judge Story, [115];
exposition of them, [115];
some facts, [115];
local confederacies, [115];
the form of the first, [115];
its existence, [115];
assertion of Edward Everett, [116];
unsustainable, [116];
his quotations, [117];
letter of General Gage to Congress in 1774, [117];
extract, [117];
a citation from the Declaration of Independence, [118];
a palpable misconception, [118];
as united States Independence was achieved, [118];
as united States they entered into a new compact, [119];
in no single instance was the action by the people in the aggregate or as one body, [119];
facts, [119], [120];
by what authority was it ordained? [131];
denied by Webster to be a compact, [135].
Constitution, Confederate, the permanent of the Confederate States, prepared and ratified, [258];
remarks of Mr. Stephens, [258];
followed the model of the United States Constitution, [259];
some of its distinctive features, [259], [260];
term of the President's office, [259];
removals from office, [259];
admission of Cabinet officers to seats on floor of Congress, [259];
protective duties prohibited, [260];
two-thirds vote for appropriations, [260];
impeachment by State Legislature, [260];
the States make a compact for improvement of navigation, [260];
amendments obligatory by convention, [260];
provisions relative to slavery, [261];
other provisions, [261];
words of Mr. Lincoln, [262];
words of "New York Herald," [263].
Constitution, Provisional, for the Confederacy, adopted, [229];
officers elected, [230].
Constitutional Convention, the original, rejected the doctrine of the coercion of a State, [56];
conclusions drawn from the instructions of the States to their delegates, [93];
assembling of the Convention, [94];
the work takes a wider range than was contemplated, [94];
diversity of opinion among the members, [95];
Luther Martin's description of the three parties in the Convention, [95];
the equality of the States, how adjusted, [96];
plan of government of Edmund Randolph, [96];
how the word "national" was treated, [97].
Constitutional questions involved in the position of the Southern States, recapitulation of, [77].
Constitutional Union party of 1860, its principles, [51].
Constitutional Union Convention in 1860, its nominations and resolutions, [60].
Convention, the original idea of calling, [98];
its powers merely advisory, [103];
how its work was approved, [103].
Conventions, State, representatives of sovereignty, [97].
Cooper, Samuel, resigns in United States Army, [308];
his rank, [308];
appointment in the Confederate Army, [308].
Count of Paris, his travesty of history, [200], [201];
libels the memory of Major Anderson, [283].
Coxe, Tench, words relative to separate sovereignties, [128].
Crawford, Martin J., appointed commissioner to United States, [246];
commissioner to Washington arrives, [246];
describes the incidents and his reception, [265];
other proceedings, [266].
Crittenden, J. C., offers in the Senate a joint resolution proposing amendments to the Constitution, [60];
how received, [60].
Davis, Jefferson, reëlected to United States Senate in 1851, [18];
subject of the compromise measures agitating Mississippi, [18];
division of opinion, [18];
the principles of the Declaration of Independence of more value than the Union, [18];
his position and views, [19];
invited to become candidate for Governor, [19];
not accepted, [20];
active canvass, [20];
nominated again on the withdrawal of the former nominee, [20];
resigns as United States Senator, [20];
his position relative to the Union, [21];
letter to W. J. Brown, [21];
enters the Cabinet of President Pierce, [22];
charge of the Pacific Railroad survey, [23];
charge of the Capitol extension, [23];
charge of changes in the model of arms, [23];
increase of the army, [23];
its officers, [24]; clerkships, [24];
anecdote of General Jesup, [24];
again elected Senator from Mississippi, [25];
no change in President Pierce's Cabinet during his term, [25];
extract from a speech in the Senate on the relation of master and servant in a Territory, [30];
remarks in the Senate on the "Nicholson letter" of General Cass, [37];
offers a series of resolutions in United States Senate, [42];
the resolutions, [42];
discussion and vote in the Senate, [43];
position of the mover shown in extract from his speech, [44-46];
meets with the Congressional representatives and Governor of Mississippi in consultation, [57];
his views, [57];
summoned to Washington, [58];
state of affairs there and his proceedings, [59];
extract from a speech in December, 1860, in the Senate, showing his position, [61-68];
position and feelings at the beginning of 1861, [205];
previous life, [205];
office of Senator, [206];
in the Cabinet, [206];
letter of C. C. Clay, relative to misstatements respecting, [206];
conversation with President Buchanan relative to the forts in Charleston Harbor, [214];
advises him to withdraw the garrison, [215];
his objections, [215];
presents rejoinder of South Carolina Commissioners to President Buchanan in the Senate, [218];
his speech, [219];
notified of the secession of Mississippi, [220];
states the position of the State in his final address to the United States Senate [221-224];
elected President of the Confederate States, [230];
engaged at home, [230];
disappointed, [230];
better fitted for command in the field, [230];
anecdote of W. L. Sharkey, [230];
addresses on the way to Montgomery, [231];
inaugural address, [232];
letter to President Buchanan, [264];
message to Congress on April 28th, [278], [279];
writes to Governor Letcher to sustain Baltimore, [300];
remained in the Senate after Mississippi called her convention, in order to obtain such measures as would prevent the final step, [302];
when her ordinance was enacted the question was no longer open, and her Senator could only retire from the United States Senate, [302];
letter of instructions to Captain Semmes, [311];
message to Congress in April, 1861, [326];
reply to the Maryland Commissioners, [333];
answer to Johnston relative to the rank of the latter, [348];
goes to the Manassas battle-field, [348];
scenes witnessed and described, [348], [349];
arrives at Beauregard's headquarters, [349];
meets General Johnston, [350];
appearance of the enemy, [350];
the field on the left, [351];
meets General Beauregard, [352];
conference with the generals after Manassas battle, [352];
subject of conference, [356];
necessity of pursuit, [356];
condition of the troops, [356];
meets the wounded, [357];
letter promoting General Beauregard, [359];
charged with preventing the pursuit at Manassas, [361];
letter to General Johnston on the subject, [362];
answer of Johnston, [363];
reference to another conference, [363];
letter to General Beauregard relative to the plea of a want of transportation for not pursuing the enemy, [365];
endorsement on the report of General Johnston, [366];
remarks upon it, [366];
letter to Beauregard relative to his report, [366];
the objectionable point reviewed, [367];
the part of the report and objections suppressed by Congress, [367];
the report, [368];
the endorsement of the President, [369];
letter calling for information on the wants of the army, [384];
reply to the letter of the Governor of Kentucky, [390];
anxiety about affairs in Missouri, [426];
letter to John B. Clark, [427];
answer to the request of General J. E. Johnston for reënforcements, [442];
letter to General G. W. Smith on the reorganization of the army, [445];
letter to General Beauregard, [446];
letter to General Beauregard, [447];
letter to General J. E. Johnston, [448];
letter to General J. E. Johnston on enemy's movements, [452];
letter to General G. W. Smith on movements against the enemy, [453];
letter to General J. E. Johnston on inspection of the line between Dumfries and Fredericksburg, [454];
letter to General J. E. Johnston on Jackson's movement in the Valley, [457];
letter to General J. E. Johnston on the order of the Secretary of War for the troops to retire to the Valley, [460];
letter to General J. E. Johnston on the complaint of irregular action by the Secretary of War, [461];
letter to General J. E. Johnston in answer to a letter stating that his position was considered unsafe, [462];
letter to General J. E. Johnston on mobilizing his army, [463];
letter to General J. E. Johnston in answer to a notice that the army was in retreat, [464];
visit to General Johnston's headquarters, [465];
reconnaissance, [466];
extract from the inaugural address in 1862, [484];
message on the employment of slaves in the army, [515].
Debt, Foreign, at the close of the war, [496];
attempts to discredit the Government abroad, [497];
reference to Union bank-bonds, [497].
Delaware, instructions to her delegates to the Constitutional Convention, [93];
her words of ratification of the Federal Constitution, [104].
Delicate truth, A, to be veiled, [101].
Democratic Convention of 1860, disagreement, [50];
adjournment of divisions, [50];
nominations by the friends of popular sovereignty, [50];
nominations by the Conservatives, [50].
Democratic party, dissensions in, [36].
D'Wolf, James, president of a slave-trading company, anecdote of, [84].
Disguise with Confederate Commissioners thrown off on the reduction of Sumter, [297].
Dissolution and secession from the first Union gave existence to the present Union, [171];
the right to withdraw in either case results from the same principles, [171].
Dogma, A new, created at the Chicago Convention in 1860, [49].
Douglas, Stephen A., on the doctrine of squatter sovereignty, [38];
nominated for the Presidency in 1860, [50];
unwilling to withdraw, [52];
his resolution in the Senate recommending evacuation of the forts, [281];
his remarks, [281].
Dred Scott case; the question, [83];
the salient points established, [84];
remarks of the Chief-Justice, [84].
Early, General Jubal, commands regiment at Manassas, [351];
extracts relative to the first battle of Manassas written by him, [372];
sketch of him, [372-378];
remarks on the retreat from Centreville, [468];
do. on the loss of supplies, [468].
Election, Presidential, of 1860, votes and result, [53].
Ellis, Governor, of North Carolina, reply to Mr. Lincoln's call for troops, [412];
sketch of Governor Ellis, [413];
letter to President Buchanan restoring Forts Johnson and Caswell, [413].
Ellsworth, Oliver, views of, on the coercion of a State, [178].
Elzy, General, commands brigade at Manassas, [351].
Endorsement of the President, on the report of the victory at Manassas, by General Beauregard, [369].
Equality of the States a condition of the Union, [180], [181].
Equilibrium between the sections destroyed by the action of the General Government, [32].
Equipments for armies, the supply of, [478];
their manufacture, [478].
Everett, Edward, nominated for the Vice-Presidency in 1860, [50];
his assertions relative to the Constitution, [129];
views on the sovereignty of the States, [148].
Evans, General N. S., his force near Leesburg, [437];
fight at Ball's Bluff, [437].
Expedition, Naval, to reënforce Fort Sumter, [274];
the circumstances, [274];
its arrival delayed by a storm, [274];
dissensions in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet, [274];
impossible that he was ignorant of the communications of the Secretary, [275];
yet the Secretary was not impeached, [275];
a transaction in the Cabinet, [275];
letter of Mr. Blair, [277];
letters of the Commissioners, [277], [278];
message of President Davis to Congress, [277];
the relief squadron, [284];
correspondence of Major Anderson, [288];
arrival of the fleet off Charleston Harbor, [289];
its failure to relieve the fort, [289];
report of Captain McGowan, [291].
Fairfax Court-House, The conference at, [445];
circumstances, [449];
questions considered at the conference, [449];
a paper relating to the conference, [450];
details respecting it, [450];
position unfavorable for defense, [452];
establishment of a battery near Acquia Creek, [452];
possibilities in the Valley of the Shenandoah, [452];
correspondence, [452];
reference to, [464].
"Faith as to Sumter fully kept"—the written answer of Secretary Seward, [273];
official notification of reënforcement served on Governor Pickens on the same day, [274].
False representations made of us at the close of 1860, [77].
Federal Constitution, how the term was freely used, [93].
Federal Government, the tendency to pervert the functions delegated to it, and to use them with sectional discrimination against the minority, [32].
Federalist, The, its use of the word "sovereign" as applied to the States, [144].
"Fighting in the Union," what was meant by it, [225].
Financial system of The Confederacy adopted from necessity, [485];
its operation during eighteen months, [485];
issue of notes and bonds, [486], [487];
efforts to fund Treasury notes, [487];
provisions of Congress relative to, [488];
measure to reduce the currency, [489];
a review of the financial legislation, [489];
a war-tax, [490];
internal taxation a partial failure, [490];
compulsory reduction of the currency, [491];
its success, [492];
financial condition of the Government at its close, [492];
amount of the public debt, [493];
taxation, [493].
"Firing on the flag," the disingenuous rant of demagogues, [292].
"Flaunting lie, A," the compact of Union, [326].
Florida withdraws from the Union, [220].
Floyd, General John B., resigns as United States Secretary of War, [214];
his reason, [214];
advances to the support of General Wise, [433];
his skirmishes with the enemy, [433];
defeats them, [435];
assailed by General Rosecrans, [433];
Rosecrans falls back, [433].
Foote, Samuel A., states the true issue relative to the admission of Missouri to the Union, [12].
Foreign relations, efforts at recognition, [469];
seizure of our commissioners on board the Trent, [469];
indignation in England, [469];
their restoration, [469].
Forsyth, John, appointed commissioner to United States, [246].
Forts and arsenals, course of United States Government relative to, [281];
resolution, [202];
do. taken possession of by the Southern States, [202];
assertion made that the absence of troops was the result of collusion, [202];
this absence was the ordinary condition of peace, [203];
as defenseless now as in 1861, [203];
some exceptions, [203];
the situation long maintained at Pensacola Bay, [203];
conditional cession to United States, [209];
condition of the cession of Massachusetts, [209];
do. of New York, [209];
do. of South Carolina, [210];
stipulations made by Virginia in ceding the ground for Fortress Monroe, [210];
act of cession, [211].
Fox, G. V., his plan to reënforce and furnish supplies to Fort Sumter, [271];
describes the details, [271].
Framework of the Government, how constructed, [97].
Franklin, Benjamin, his use of the word "sovereignties" as applied to the States, [144].
Freedom and slavery, terms misleading the opinions and sympathies of the world, [6].
Fremont, General John C., his confiscation proclamation in Missouri, [430].
Frost, General D.M., commands militia at Camp Jackson, [415];
surrenders to Captain Lyon, [415];
efforts for release, [415];
his letter to General Harney, [415], [416].
Fugitives, law for the rendition of, occasion of its passage, [16];
tended to lead other States to believe they might evade their constitutional obligations, [16];
action of the States which had passed personal liberty laws, [16];
the rendition of, not the proper subject for the legislation of Congress, [81];
how it was in early times, [82].
Garnett, General Robert, killed at Rich Mountain, [338];
biographical notice, [338].
General Government, its claim of a right to judge of the extent of its own authority, [191].
Georgia, efforts to prohibit importation of slaves, [4];
instructions to her deputies to the Constitutional Convention, [91];
her ratification of the Federal Constitution, [106];
withdraws from the Union, [220].
Gerry, Elbridge, objects to the provision for nine States to ratify, as a virtual dissolution of the Union, [100];
his use of the word "compact," [137].
Gorgas, General, appointed chief of ordnance, [310];
states the growth of his department, [481];
statement relative to the charge against Secretary of War Floyd, [482].
Government, The United States, exalted above the States which created it, [127];
no such unit as United States ever mentioned, [127];
instances, [127];
words of Tench Coxe, [128];
forgotten misconceptions revived by Daniel Webster, [128];
his assertions in debate, [128];
specimen of views of sectionists, [129];
assertion of Edward Everett, [129];
do. of J. L. Motley, [129];
most remarkable of these assertions, [130];
Constitution mentions the States as States seventy times, [130];
what authority ordained and established the Constitution, [131];
statements of Everett and Motley, [131];
question of Story and its answer, [132];
views of Madison on the nature of the ratification, [133];
legislation can not alter a fact, [134];
its treatment of citizens of Kentucky, [398];
not supreme, but subject to the Constitution and laws, [151];
accepted of sites for forts on the conditions prescribed by the State, [211];
confounded with the oath to support the Constitution, [151].
Government, Confederate, seat of, removed to Richmond, [340];
reasons for the removal, [340].
Governments only agents of the sovereign, [142];
responsible to it, and subject to its control, [154].
Grant, General, attempts to capture the garrison at Belmont, [403];
his defeat, [404];
became willing to exchange prisoners, [405].
Grants to the Federal Government, not surrenders, says Hamilton, but delegations of power, [163].
Great Britain, charge preferred against the Government of, in the Declaration of Independence, [82].
Green, James S., offers a resolution in the United States Senate relative to preserving peace between the States, [61].
Grievance, the intolerable, [83].
Hamilton, Alexander, his use of the word "sovereignty" as applied to the States, [144];
on the supremacy of the Constitution, [150];
on a confederated republic, [162];
extract from "The Federalist," [162];
further views, [162];
his views on the coercion of a State, [178];
on the omission of a State to appoint Senators, [179].
Harney, Major-General, removed from command in Missouri, [421].
Harper's Ferry, burned and evacuated, [328];
President Lincoln expresses his approbation, [328];
destruction caused, [329];
an important, position for military and political considerations, [340];
its occupation needful for the removal of machinery, [341].
Harris, Governor of Tennessee, reply to Mr. Lincoln's call for troops, [413].
Harrison, William Henry, Governor of Indiana Territory, [8];
letter to Congress with resolutions requesting the suspension of the ordinance prohibiting slavery, [9].
Hartford Convention, proceedings relative to a dissolution of the Union, [74].
Hayne, I. W., Commissioner from South Carolina to Washington, [219].
Hemp, bales of, used for a breastwork, [430].
Henry, Patrick, asks what right had they to say, "We the people," [121];
his objection to "one people," [174].
Hicks, Governor of Maryland, his declarations, [331];
his proclamation, [331].
Hill, Colonel A. P., orders the affair near Romney, [343];
sketch of, [344].
Hill, Colonel D. H., afterward lieutenant-general, [342];
report of the combat at Bethel Church, [342].
Honor of the United States Government, how maintained relative to the forts in Charleston Harbor, [217];
a point easy to concede, [217].
Hope of reconciliation, the last expires, [250].
Hostile expedition, the, made the reduction of Sumter necessary before it should be reënforced, [297].
Howard, Charles, arrest and imprisonment by General Banks, [335].
Huger, General, commands a force at Norfolk, [340].
Hurlburt, a captive prisoner, [361];
his career, [361].
Huse, Major Caleb, sent to Europe for the purchase of munitions of war, [311];
our agent in Europe, [482];
his letter relative to the shipment of supplies, [482].
Immigration, causes which combined for its direction to the Northern States, [32].
Inaction of the Army of the Potomac, the President alleged to be responsible for it, [449];
the question for consideration at the Fairfax conference, [449];
a paper relative to the conference, [450];
proceedings at the Conference, [451], [452];
correspondence, [452], [453];
application of General Jackson, [454];
correspondence relative to, [455], [456];
further correspondence, [457], etc.
Inaugural address of the author as President of the Confederate States, [232].
Incendiaries, trained in scenes of Kansas strife, [31].
Independence of North Carolina and Rhode Island while not members of the Union, [112];
relations between them and the United States, [112];
letter from the Governor of Rhode Island, [112].
Indiana Territory, petitions for the suspension of the Ordinance of 1787, prohibiting slavery, [8];
action on the petitions, [8];
subsequent action and resolutions, [9].
Insurrection, An, was it? [325].
Introduction, The, [1].
Irrepressible conflict, how the declaration of, arose, [34].
"Is thy servant a dog?" its use in the United States Senate, [34].
Invasions of States, no right in the Federal government to, [411];
words of the Constitution, [411];
deemed a high crime, [411];
response of Governors to President Lincoln's call for troops, [411].
Invention exhausted itself in the creation of imaginary "cabals," "conspiracies," and "intrigues," [200];
examples, [209].
Jackson, General T. J., skill and daring in checking the enemy's forces in June, 1861, [344];
character, [454];
letter proposing a movement into the Shenandoah Valley, [455];
letter of the President, [457].
Jackson, Governor of Missouri, reply to Mr. Lincoln's call for troops, [412];
issues a call for fifty thousand volunteers, [421];
words of the Governor, [421];
his efforts to preserve the peace, [422];
his declarations, [422];
demands of the Federal officers, [422];
his march, [459];
its results, [459].
Jersey Plan, The, States rights, and opposed to national, as proposed in the Federal Constitutional Convention, [105];
arguments for it, [106].
Johnston, General Albert Sidney, resigns in United States Army, [308];
rank, [308];
appointment in Confederate Army, [309];
his early career, [405];
resigns in United States army, [406];
assigned to the command of the Confederate Department of the West, [406];
destitution at Nashville, [406];
his movements, [406];
his military positions, [406];
takes command at Bowling Green, [406];
his force, [407];
force of the enemy, [407];
efforts to procure arms and men, [407];
letter to the Governor of Alabama, [407];
letter to the Governor of Georgia, [407];
telegram to Richmond, [407];
answer of the Secretary of War, [407];
aid from the Governor and Legislature of Tennessee, [408];
measures taken to concentrate and recruit his forces, [408];
the result, [408];
resolves on a levy en masse, [409];
letters to the Governors of States, [409];
reënforced from Virginia, [410].
Johnson, Herschel V., nominated for the Vice-Presidency in 1860, [50].
Johnston, General Joseph E., commands army near Harper's Ferry, [340];
desires to retire, [341];
official letter addressed to him, [341];
apparent effort of the enemy to detain him in the Valley of the Shenandoah, [344];
his junction with Beauregard becomes necessary, [344];
extract from official letter, [345];
urged to join General Beauregard, [345];
correspondence lost, [346];
telegram sent to, by General Cooper, [346];
confidence reposed in him, [346];
the meaning of an order, [347];
the junction made with marked skill, [347];
answer to telegram to join Beauregard, [347];
his telegram asking his position relative to Beauregard, [348];
answer, [348];
his rank in the Confederate Army, [348];
letter relative to obstacles to the pursuit of the enemy at Manassas, [363];
his report, and the endorsement put on it by the President, [366];
remonstrates against the movement of General Jackson in the valley, [454];
letter, [456];
reconnaissance, [465].
Johnson, John M., chairman of committee of Kentucky Senate on military occupation, [393];
letter to General Polk, [393].
Jordan, Colonel Thomas, letter respecting the pursuit of the enemy after battle at Manassas, [354];
his order, [355].
Judiciary, The Federal, views of Marshall on the power of, [166].
Justification, A, efforts of President Lincoln to make out his, [322];
words of his message, [322];
his question, [322];
its answer very plain, [322];
his supposed answer, [322];
nothing more erroneous than such views, [323];
the beginning and end of all the powers of government are to be found in the instrument of delegation, [323];
for what purpose must he call out the war power? [324];
his blockade proclamation, [324];
its scheme, [324];
how based, [324];
its assumption of an insurrection, [325];
was it an insurrection? [325].
Kane, Police Marshal, arrested and imprisoned at Baltimore, [334].
Kansas and Nebraska Bill, some facts connected with it, [26];
declaration of 1850, [26];
its discussion, [27];
proceedings relative to, [28];
not inspired by President Pierce's Cabinet, [28];
true intent and meaning of the act, [28];
its terms, [29].
Kansas Territory, its organization, [26].
Kenner, Duncan F., letter on the election of Provisional President, [238].
Kentucky, the principles announced by her, [385];
resolutions, [385];
her position in the conflict, [386];
the question of neutrality, [386];
how could it be maintained, [386];
correspondence between Governor Magoffin and President Lincoln, [387];
correspondence with President Davis, [389], [390];
advance of General Polk, [391];
the occasion of it, [390];
correspondence between General Polk and the authorities of Kentucky, [392];
resolutions of the Legislature relative to the occupation of points in the State by troops, [392];
treatment of her citizens by United States Government, [398].
King, Rufus, on the danger to the Union, [186].
Lamon, Colonel, application to visit Fort Sumter, [272].
Lane, Joseph, nominated for the Vice-Presidency in 1860, [50];
Senator from Oregon, some remarks relative to affairs, [250].
Language of the Northern press, on the right to coerce a State, [253-256];
language of Northern speeches, on resistance to an attempt to coerce a State, [254].
Laurel Hill, West Virginia, the conflict at, [338].
Lay, Colonel, reminiscences of the battle of Manassas, [381], [382].
Lee, Robert E., resigns in the United States Army, [308];
rank, [308];
appointment in the Confederate Army, [309];
appointed commander-in-chief of the military forces of Virginia, [328];
commands the Army of Virginia, [340];
remarks, [340];
goes to western Virginia, [434];
his movements, [434];
the bad season, [434];
decides to attack the encampment of the enemy, [434];
the instructions, [435];
refrains from the attack, [435];
cause, [435];
moves to the support of Wise and Floyd, [436];
the enemy withdraws, [436];
Lee returns to Richmond, [436];
sent to South Carolina, [437].
Leesburg, movement of the enemy to cross the Potomac near, [437].
Letcher, Governor, reply to Mr. Lincoln's call for troops, [412].
"Let the Union slide," origin of the expression, [56].
Lexington, Missouri, the battle at, [430];
surrender of the enemy, [431].
Liberty, misuse of the word by abolitionists, [34].
Lincoln, President, his language relative to coercion, [256];
approves the plan of Fox to reënforce Sumter, [272];
issues his proclamation introducing the farce of combinations, [297];
no power to declare war, [298];
section 4, Article IV, of the Constitution, [298];
no justification for the invasion of a State, [298];
a palpable violation of the Constitution, [298];
his effort to justify himself before the world for attacking us, [322];
expresses his approbation at the burning of Harper's Ferry, [329];
his explanation of his policy, [329];
letter relative to the passage of troops through Baltimore, [332];
reply to the letter of the Governor of Kentucky, [388];
calls on the Governors of States for troops, [412];
their answers, [412].
Louisiana Territory, its purchase one of the earliest occasions for the manifestation of sectional jealousy, [12]; withdraws from the Union, [220].
Loring, General, commands at Valley Mountain, Virginia, [434].
Lyons, General, begins hostilities in Missouri, [415];
announces the intention of the Administration to reduce Missouri to the exact condition of Maryland, [423];
killed at Springfield, [429];
disposal of his body, [430].
Madison, James, asks on what principle the old Confederation can be superseded, [100];
his answer, [100];
says the parties to the Constitution are the people as composing thirteen sovereignties, [122];
views on the nature of the ratification of the Constitution, [133];
his use of the word "compact" as applied to the Constitution, [138];
his use of the word "sovereignties" as applied to the States, [144];
on the supremacy of the Constitution, [150];
his interpretation of the fundamental principles of the Constitution, [164];
his argument to show that the great principles of the Constitution are an expansion of the principles in the Articles of Confederation, [171];
his view of "one people," [174];
on the coercion of a State, [177];
on the danger to the perpetuity of the Union, [185].
Magoffin, B., Governor of Kentucky, [287];
letter to President Lincoln, [287];
letter to President Davis, [389];
reply to Mr. Lincoln's call for troops, [412].
Magruder, General, commands the force on the Peninsula, [340].
Mallory, S. B., Secretary of State under Provisional Constitution, [242];
Secretary of Confederate Navy, [314];
his experience, [314].
Manassas, first battle at, [348];
appearance of the field, [348];
condition of our forces afterward, [356];
evidences of the rout of the enemy, [356];
cost of the victory, [356];
dispersion of our troops after the battle, [357];
reasons why it was an extraordinary victory, [358];
nature of the field, [358];
the line of the retreating foe followed, [359];
articles abandoned, [359];
the spoils gathered, [360];
strength of the two armies, [371];
amount of field transportation, [383];
dissatisfaction that followed the victory, [442];
unjust criticisms, [442];
their effect on the Government, [442].
Manufacturing industry, more extensive than ever, [505].
Marshall, John, on the powers of the States, [165];
on the power of the Federal judiciary, [166].
Martin, Luther, his use of the word "compact" as applied to the Constitution, [138].
Maryland, instructions to her delegates to the Constitutional Convention, [92];
her ratification of the Federal Constitution, [108];
refused to be bound by the Articles of Confederation, [126];
first to be invaded, [330];
warning to all the slaveholding States, [330];
views of Governor Hicks, [330];
a commissioner from Mississippi, [330];
declarations of Governor Hicks, [331];
Baltimore resists the passage of troops, [332];
efforts of the police and Governor, [332];
letter of President Lincoln, [332];
visit of the Mayor of Baltimore, [332];
his report, [332];
Legislature appoints commissioners to the Confederate Government, [333];
also to Washington, [333];
reply of President Davis, [333];
Baltimore occupied by United States troops, [333];
the city disarmed, [334];
authorities arrested and imprisoned, [334];
arrest of members of the Legislature, [336];
imprisonment, [336];
Governor Hicks's final message, [336];
her story sad to the last degree, [337];
how relieved, [337];
the Maryland line of the Revolution, [337];
tender ministrations of her daughters to the wounded, [337].
Mason, George, views on the coercion of a State, [177].
Mason and Slidell, Messrs., sent as Commissioners to Europe, [469];
seized on their passage by Captain Wilkes, United States Navy, [469];
their treatment and restoration, [470].
Massachusetts, threats of a dissolution of the Union in 1844-'45, [76];
instructions to her delegates to the Constitutional Convention, [92];
tenacious of her State independence, [107];
action on the ratification of the Federal Constitution, [107];
her terms of ratification, [139];
her use of the word "compact," as applied to the Constitution, [139];
use of the word "sovereign," as applied to the State, [143];
on the reserved powers of the States, [146];
resolutions of her Legislature express perhaps too decided a doctrine of nullification, [190];
terms of cession of land for forts and navy-yard to the United States, [209].
McClellan, Major-General George B., commands force in Western Virginia, [338];
commands enemy's forces at Rich Mountain and Laurel Hill, [338].
McDowell, General, moves to attack General Beauregard, [344].
Medicines, declared by the enemy contraband of war, [310];
substitutes sought from the forest, [310].
Memminger, C. G., Secretary of the Treasury under the Provisional Constitution, [242].
Michigan, action of her Senators relative to the Peace Congress, [248], [249];
the "bloodletting" letter, [249].
Miles, W. Porcher, letter on the election of Provisional President, [240].
Military organizations, quasi, in the North in 1860, [55].
Military service, laws relating to, [506];
a constitutional question raised, [506];
its discussion at length, [506].
Mississippi, agitated by compromise measures of 1850, [18];
diversity of views, [18];
Governor calls special session of the Legislature after the Presidential election in 1860, [57];
its Senators and Representatives in Congress convened for consultation, [57];
views of the author, [57], [58];
letter of O. R. Singleton on the consultation, [58];
withdraws from the Union, [220];
State Convention makes provision for a State army, [228];
appoints the author major-general, and other officers, [228];
State divided into districts, and troops apportioned, [228];
destitution of arms showed the absence of expectation of war, [228].
Mississippi River, misrepresentations relative to the free navigation of, [244];
act of Congress relative to, [245].
Mississippi Union Bank bonds, the facts in relation to them, [497].
Missouri Compromise, without Constitutional authority, [11].
Missouri, controversy relative to the admission of, to the Union, [12];
its origin, [12];
history of the excitement occasioned, [12];
its result, [12];
true issue stated by Samuel A. Foote, [12];
the compromise, how constituted, [13];
votes on, [13];
line obliterated in 1850, [14];
its effect, [14], [15];
resistance to its admission as a State, owing merely to political motives, [33];
the issue of subjugation presented to her, [403];
her condition similar to that of Kentucky, [414];
hostilities instituted by Captain Lyon, [414];
Camp Jackson surrounded, [414];
its surrender, [415];
imprisonment of General Frost, [415];
efforts to restore order, [416];
agreement between Generals Price and Harney, [416];
signification of the agreement between Generals Harney and Price, [417];
favorable prospect of peace in the State, [418];
misrepresentations by a cabal, [418];
an incident, [418];
General Harney removed, [419];
arms removed from the United States Arsenal to St. Louis, [419];
houses of citizens searched for arms, [419];
the excitement in the State, [420];
General Jackson an object of special persecution, [420];
activity of Lieutenant-Governor Reynolds, [420];
position of the State in 1860, [420];
interference of unauthorized parties, [420];
the volunteers attacked at Booneville by General Lyon and United States troops, [424];
a party of the enemy routed, [424];
General Price moves to southwestern part of the State, [424];
the patriot army of Missouri, [425];
rout of the enemy at Carthage, [425];
anxiety about affairs in Missouri, [426];
General Price's efforts, [427], [428];
complaints and embarrassments in, [427];
correspondence with John B. Clark, [427];
destitution of arms, [428];
Missourians at Vicksburg, [428];
aid from Confederate States, [429];
battle at Springfield, [429];
action of General Fremont, [430];
conflict at Lexington, [430];
asserts her right to exercise supreme control over her domestic affairs, [421];
proceedings in, [421];
attack of Kansas troops, [431];
put to flight, [431];
increase of the force of the enemy, [432];
General Price retires, [432];
evidence that the ordinance of secession was the expression of the popular will of Missouri, [432].
Misrepresentations, inspired by a cabal in St. Louis, [418].
Monroe, Judge, citizen of Kentucky, his treatment by the Government of the United States, [398].
Moore, Surgeon L. P., appointed Surgeon-general, [310].
Morris, Gouverneur, his use of the word "compact," [137];
his remarkable propositions in the Convention, and their fate, [159], [160].
Motley, John L., his assertions relative to the Constitution, [129];
his declaration relative to the words "sovereign" and "sovereignty," [143];
views on the second clause of the sixth article, [150].
Munitions of war, preparations to provide them, [316];
prompt measures to supply niter, saltpeter, charcoal, [316].
Myers, Lieutenant-Colonel A. C., appointed quartermaster-general, [310].
"National," how the word was treated in the Convention that framed the Constitution, [97].
Nationalism, its fate in the Constitutional Convention, [161].
Naval officers, Southern, view of their position, [313];
returned all vessels to the North, [314].
Naval vessels, instructions to Captain Semmes to seek for, [313];
views relative to Southern naval officers, [313];
officer sent to England, [314].
Nelson, Judge, coöperates between the Commissioners and the Federal authorities, [267];
his own views, [267].
Neutrality, the position assumed by Kentucky, [386].
Neutrality of Kentucky not respected by United States Government, [397];
historical statement, [398].
New Hampshire, instructions to her deputies to the Constitutional Convention, [92];
her ratification of the Federal Constitution, [108];
use of the word "compact" as applied to the Constitution, [134];
use of the word "sovereign" as applied to the State, [143];
on the reserved powers of the States, [147].
New Jersey, instructions to her delegates to the Constitutional Convention, [90];
her ratification of the Federal Constitution, [106].
New States, practice of the Government relative to the admission of, [38];
the usual process of transition, [39];
question of sovereignty, [39];
Territorial Legislatures the agents of Congress, [40].
New York, instructions to her delegates to the Constitutional Convention, [92];
how the ratification was secured, [109];
a declaration of principles, [110];
her declaration on the reserved powers of the States, [147];
conditions upon which the land for Brooklyn Navy Yard was ceded to the United States, [209];
nine States to ratify, reason for the adoption of this number, [98];
why referred to State Conventions, [99];
a dissolution of the Union, [100];
the right of, to form a government for themselves under the seventh article of the Constitution, [101];
a refutation of the assertion that the Constitution was formed by the people in the aggregate, [101].
Niter and Mining Bureau, organized, [477];
its operation, [477].
North, The, the cause of undue caution, [314].
North Carolina, instructions to her commissioners to the Constitutional Convention, [90];
her declaration on the reserved powers of the States, [147].
Northern States, at the last moment, refuse to make any concessions, or to offer any guarantees to check the current toward secession of the complaining States, [438];
responsible for whatever of bloodshed, of devastation, or shock to republican government has resulted from the war, [439].
Northrop, Colonel L. B., placed at the head of the subsistence department, [303];
his experience and capacity, [303];
rank, [310];
his efforts to provide for present and future supplies, [315];
lack of transportation, [315].
Nullification and secession, distinction between, [184].
Oath required by the Constitution, some took it and made use of the powers and opportunities of the offices held under its sanctions to nullify its obligations, [81].
Object of the war, our subjugation by the North, [321].
Obstacles to the formation of a more perfect Union, [31].
"On to Richmond," changed at Manassas to "off to Washington," [351].
Order of pursuit, after the victory at Manassas, details of, [353], [354];
not sent, [355];
another order sent, [355].
Ordinance of Virginia in 1787, its articles, [7], [355].
Ordinance of Virginia in 1787, its articles, [7];
urged as a precedent in support of the claim of a power in Congress to determine the question of the admission of slaves into the Territories, [10];
its validity examined, [10], [11].
Orr, James L., Commissioner from South Carolina to Washington, [213].
Pandora's box, the opening of, [15].
Paradoxical theories, relative to sovereignty in the United States, [142];
no government is sovereign, [142].
Patriot army of Missouri, description of, [425].
Patterson, William, arguments for the Jersey plan in the Constitutional Convention, [206].
Patterson, Major-General, commands force at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, [337];
its object, [338].
Pause, A, to consider the attitude of the parties to the contest, and the grounds on which they stand, [289].
Peace Congress, it assembles, [248];
States represented, [248];
its officers and proceedings, [249];
the plan proposed, [250];
how treated by the majority, [250];
the failure of, [296].
Pegram, Colonel, second in command at Rich Mountain, [338].
Pendleton, Captain W. N., commands an effective battery at Manassas, [358].
Peninsula of Virginia, features for defense, [300].
Pennsylvania, instructions to her deputies to the Constitutional Convention, [90];
words with which she ratified the Federal Constitution, [105].
People in the aggregate, The, no instance of the action of the people as one body, [119];
use of the word by Virginia, [125];
its early use, [125];
do. in the Declaration of Independence, [126];
views of Story, [126];
speak as the people of the States, [152].
People of the State, the only sovereign political community before the adoption of the Federal Constitution, [154].
People of the United States, understood to mean the people of the respective States, [174];
views of Virginia, of Massachusetts, and others, [174].
People of the South, their hope and wish that the disagreeable necessity of separation would be peaceably met, [438];
every step of the Confederate Government directed to that end, [439].
Perpetuity of the Union, danger to, foreshadowed, [185].
Pickens, Governor, his dispatch relative to Colonel Lamon, [272].
Pickens, Fort, its condition at the outbreak of the war, [203].
Pickering, Timothy, letter in 1803-'4 on a separation of the Union, [71];
his prediction, [79].
Pierce, Franklin, President, his character, [25].
Plans of the enemy, their development, [468].
Pledge given by Federal authorities to Confederate Commissioners and Government for the evacuation of Sumter and unchanged condition of Pickens, [269].
Plighted faith, the last vestige of, disappeared, [274].
Point of honor, the, raised by Secretary Seward, [273].
Political parties, the changes occurring in, [35];
their names and signification, [35].
Polk, Major-General Leonidas, enters Kentucky and occupies Hickman and Columbus, [391];
his dispatch to the President and the answer, [392];
answer to Kentucky Committee, [394];
letter to the Governor of Kentucky, [396];
his proposition, [397];
repulses the assailants at Belmont, [404];
his report of the conflict, [405].
Popular sovereignty party of 1860, its principles, [51].
Powder, our supply in 1861, [472];
first efforts to obtain, [473];
mills in existence, [472];
progress of development, [474];
amount of powder annually required, [474];
how supplied, [474], [475];
Government mills, [475].
Powell, Senator, offers a resolution in the United States Senate relative to the state of affairs in 1860, [61];
action on the resolution, [68].
Power, Political, the balance of, the basis of sectional controversy, [11];
its earlier manifestations, [11].
Power of amendment, special examination of, [195];
what is the Constitution? [195];
the States have only intrusted to a common agent certain functions, [196];
a power to amend the delegated grants, [196];
the first ten amendments, [196];
distinction between amendment and delegation of power, [196];
smaller power required for amendment than for a grant, [196];
apprehensions of the power of amendment, [197];
restrictions placed on the exercise of the delegated powers, [197];
effect on New England, [198].
Power of the Confederate Government over its own armies and the militia, [506];
object of confederations, [506];
the war powers granted, [507];
two modes of raising armies in the Confederate States, [507];
is the law necessary and proper? [508];
Congress is the judge, under the grant of specific power, [508];
what is meant by militia, [509];
whole military strength divided into two classes, [510];
powers of Congress, [510];
objections answered, [511];
the limitations enlarged, [512];
result of the operations of these laws, [515];
act for the employment of slaves, [515];
message to Congress, [515];
died of a theory, [518];
act passed, [518];
not time to put it in operation, [519].
Power to prohibit slavery in a Territory, argument for its possession by the United States Congress, [26].
Preamble to the Constitution, its words, [121];
the stronghold of the advocates of consolidation, [121];
we, the People, interpreted as a nation, [121];
words of John Adams, [121];
do. of Patrick Henry, [121];
other words of Henry, [122];
answer of Madison to Henry, [122];
the people were those of the respective States, [123];
proceeding in the Convention, [123];
the original words reported, [124];
vote on them unanimous, [124];
reason of modification, [124];
the word people—its signification, [125];
examples from Scripture, [125];
instances in the Declaration of Independence, [126];
revolt of Maryland, [126];
do. of North Carolina and Rhode Island, [126].
Precipitation, the calmness with which Southern measures were adopted refutes the charge of, [199].
Prediction of Timothy Pickering, [79].
Presidential election of 1800, the basis of the contest, [189];
the last contest on them, [189].
Pretension, Absurdity of the, by which a factitious sympathy was obtained in certain quarters for the war upon the South, on the ground that it was a war in behalf of freedom against slavery, [262];
letter of Mr. Seward, [263].
Price, General, agreement with General Harney, [416];
address to the people of Missouri, [421], [422];
his efforts in Missouri, [427], [428];
his enthusiasm, [428];
magnanimity at the battle of Springfield, [429].
Proclamation of President Lincoln on April 15, 1861, an official declaration of war, [319];
his words, [319];
power granted in the Constitution, how expressed, [320];
delegated to Congress, [320];
action of South Carolina, [320];
the State designated as a combination, [320];
not recognized as a State, [320];
its effect, [321];
reason of President Lincoln for designating the State as a combination, [321];
no authority to enter a State on insurrection arising, [321];
words of the Constitution, [321];
his efforts to justify himself, [322];
was it an insurrection? [325].
Prohibitory clauses, relative to the States, [149].
Propositions clearly established relative to sovereignty, [157], [158].
Proposition of Major-General Polk to the Governor of Kentucky, [397].
Public opinion, how drifted from the landmarks set up by the sages and patriots who formed the constitutional Union, [216].
Quincy, Josiah, member of Congress from Massachusetts, declaration of a dissolution of the Union in 1811, [73].
Quitman, John A., nominated for Governor of Mississippi, [20];
accepts and subsequently withdraws, [20].
Railroads, insufficient in number, [315];
poorly furnished, [315];
dependent on Northern foundries, [315].
Rains, General G. W., his experience, [316];
charged with the manufacture of powder, [316];
undertakes the manufacture of powder, [475].
Randolph, Edmund, plan of government offered in the Convention, [96];
his views on the coercion of a State, [178].
Reagan, J. H., Postmaster-General under Provisional Constitution, [242].
Rector, Governor of Arkansas, reply to Mr. Lincoln's call for troops, [412].
Relay House, occupied by United States troops, [333].
Remedy, The, invoked by Mr. Calhoun [189].
Representatives of the South, their proceedings at Washington.
Republic, An American, never transfers or surrenders its sovereignty, [154].
Republican (so-called) Convention of 1860, a purely sectional body, [49];
its selection of candidates, [49];
declaration of Mr. Lincoln, [49].
Republican party, its growth, [36];
its principle, [36];
votes, [36];
of 1860, its principles, [51].
Republicans, demand made on them in the United States Senate for a declaration of their policy, [69];
no answer, [69].
Resolutions, relating to Territories offered by Senator Davis, [42];
discussion and vote upon them, [43];
position of the Senator, [44];
adopted by Southern Senators, [204];
their significance, [204];
further efforts would be unavailing, [205].
Resolutions of 1798-'99, the corner-stone of the political edifice of Mr. Jefferson, [385].
Reserved powers of the States, views of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, [146], [147];
declaration of New York, [147];
do. of South Carolina, [147];
do. of North Carolina, [147];
do. of Rhode Island, [148];
no objection made to the principle, [148].
Resumption of powers, etc., some objections considered, [180];
as to new States, [180];
every State equal, [180];
States formed of purchased territory, [181];
allegiance to the Federal Government said to be paramount, [182];
examined, [182];
the sovereign is the people, [182];
the right asserted in the ratifications of Virginia, New York, and Rhode Island, [173];
effort to construe these as declaring the right of one people, [174].
Revolutionary measures in the extreme, acts of the United States Government in Missouri, [420].
Reynolds, Lieutenant-Governor, ably seconds the efforts of Governor Jackson in Missouri, [423].
Rhode Island, the Constitution rejected by a vote of the people, [111];
subsequently ratified, [111];
terms of ratification, [111];
letter of her Governor to President Washington relative to her position as not a member of the new Union, [113];
her declaration on the reserved powers of the States, [148].
Rich Mountain, West Virginia, the contest at, [338].
Richmond, a campaign against, planned by the enemy, [466].
Right, the, enunciated in the Declaration of Independence, [386];
determination of the States to exercise it, [386];
to attack Fort Sumter, South Carolina a State, [290];
ground on which the fort stood ceded in trust to the United States for her defense, [290];
no other had an interest in the maintenance of the fort except for aggression against her, [290];
remarks of Senator Douglas, [290].
Rights of the States, assertions of, in various quarters, [190];
resolutions of Massachusetts Legislature, [190];
declaration on the purchase of Louisiana, [190];
on the admission of the State, [190];
on the annexation of Texas, [190].
Right of the Federal troops to enter a State, [411];
words of the Constitution, [411];
how could they be sent to overrule the will of the people? [411].
Roman, A. B., appointed Commissioner to United States, [246].
Romney, the affair near, in June, 1861, [343].
"Rope of sand," the expression examined, [176].
Scott, Major-General, advises the evacuation of the forts, [282].
Seat of sovereignty, never disturbed heretofore in this country, [154].
Secession, the tendency of the Southern movement to, [60];
repeated instances of the assertion of this right in the prior history of the country, [71];
several instances, [71];
letters, [71];
provision made for, [100];
the right of, to be veiled, [101];
a question easily determined, [168];
the compact between the States was in the nature of a partnership, [168];
law of partnerships, [168];
formation of the Confederation, [169];
do. of the "more perfect Union," [169];
an amended Union not a consolidation, [169];
the very powers of the Federal Government and prohibitions to the States, relied upon by the advocates of centralism as incompatible with State sovereignty, were in force under the old Confederation, [170];
arguments of Madison to show that the great principles of the Constitution and the Articles of Confederation are the same, [170];
extract, [171];
why was it not expressly renounced if it was intended to surrender it? [172];
it would have been extraordinary to put in the Constitution a provision for the dissolution of the Union, [172];
in treaties there is a provision for perpetuity, but the right to dissolve the compact is not less clearly understood, [172];
the movements which culminated in, began before the session of Congress of December, 1860, [201];
action of the author, [201], [202].
Secession and coercion, views on, that had been held in all parts of the country, [252].
Secessionists per se, number so small as not to be felt in any popular decision, [301];
only alternative to a surrender of equality in the union, [301].
Sectional controversy, the basis of, [11];
no question of the right or wrong of slavery involved in the earlier, [13].
Sectional hostility, not the consequence of any difference on the abstract question of slavery, [79];
the offspring of sectional rivalry and political ambition, [79].
Sectional rivalry, its efforts to prevent free emigration, [29].
Self-defense, preparations for, [326];
declarations of the message to Congress, [326];
the state of affairs, [326], [327];
acts for military purposes passed, [327];
our object and desire distinctly declared, [327];
the patriotic devotion of every portion of the country, [328];
secession of the border States, [328].
Semmes, Captain, afterward Admiral, [311];
sent North to purchase arms, ammunition, etc., etc., [311];
letter of instructions, [311].
Senators, Southern, efforts to dissuade from aggressive movements, [204];
how exerted, [204].
Separation made familiar to the people by agitation, [227].
Settlement with the United States, views relative to, [245].
Seward, W. H., letter to Mr. Dayton on the views and purposes of the United States Government, [262];
proceedings as Secretary of State relative to our Commissioners, [267];
his declarations, [268];
assurances given, [269];
his representations and misrepresentations to the Commissioners, [273], [425];
further statements, [277].
Seymour, Horatio. remarks relative to coercion, [255].
Sharkey, William L., anecdote of, [230].
Sharp correspondence between the Commissioners from South Carolina and President Buchanan, [214] (see Appendix).
Sherman, Roger, his use of the word "sovereign" as applied to the States, [144].
Singleton, O. R., letter on conference of Senators and Representatives in Congress from Mississippi with the Governor, [58].
Slaves, importation forbidden by Southern States, [4].
Slave-trade, interference with, by Congress forbidden in the Constitution, [4];
importation forbidden by Southern States, [4];
its final abolition, [5].
Slavery, a right understanding of questions growing out of, [3];
existed at the adoption of the Federal Constitution, [3];
occasion of diversities, [3];
cause of its abolition, [4];
first petitions for abolition of, [5];
question of maintenance of, belongs exclusively to the States, [6];
how raised by zealots in the North, [6];
the extension of, a term misleading the opinions of the world, [6];
did not imply the addition of a single slave to the number existing, [7];
signified distribution or dispersion, [7];
no question of the right or wrong of, involved in the earlier sectional controversies, [13];
historical sketch of its existence among us, [78];
far from being the cause of the conflict, [73];
only an incident, [80];
a matter entirely subject to the control of the States, [80];
its existence and validity distinctly recognized by the Constitution, [80].
Slaves, message on the employment of, in the army, [515];
act passed, [519].
Smith, General E. K., wounded at Manassas, [351].
South Carolina repeals law to prohibit importation of slaves, [4];
instructions to her representatives to the Constitutional Convention, [91];
adopts an ordinance of secession, [70];
her representatives in Congress withdraw, [70];
action of other States, [71];
her ratification of the Federal Constitution, [108];
her declaration on the reserved powers of the States, [147];
conditions of her cession of sites for ports in Charleston Harbor to United States, [210];
any delay by her to secede could not have changed the result, [300];
nature of her act of secession, [320].
South, The, growth of overweening confidence in, [314].
Southern manifestations, cause of, after the Presidential election of 1860, [53];
their deliberate action, [54].
Southern people, in advance of their leaders throughout, [199];
their grounds to hope there would be no war, [257];
their conservative temper, [258];
the prevailing sentiment, a cordial attachment to the Union, [301].
Southern States, only alternative to seek security out of the Union, [85];
what course remained for them to adopt, [192];
over sovereigns there is no common judge, [192];
their defenseless condition in 1861, [228];
their calamities a result of their credulous reliance on the power of the Constitution, [228];
satisfied with a Federal Government such as their fathers had formed, [439];
against the violations of the Constitution they remonstrated, argued, and finally appealed to the undelegated power of the States, [439];
years of fruitless effort to secure from their Northern associates a faithful observance of the compact, [439];
a peaceful separation preferred to a continuance in a hostile Union, [439];
pleas for peace met deceptive answers, [440].
Sovereignty resides alone in the States, [26];
assertion of Story, [141];
increased the unnecessary confusion of ideas, [141];
definition of Burlamaqui, [141];
sovereignty seated in the people, [141];
they can exercise it only through the State, [141];
the States were sovereign under the articles of Confederation, [142];
never been divested of it, [142];
paradoxical theories in the United States, [142];
if the people have transferred their sovereignty, to whom was it made? [143];
declaration of Motley, [143];
refutation by articles of Confederation, [143];
action of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, [143];
declarations of Madison, Hamilton, and others, [143], [144];
views of others, [145];
reservations in the tenth amendment, [146];
its meaning, [146];
views of the States on signification of it, [147], [148].
Sovereign will, two modes of expressing known to the people of this country, [153];
an effort to make it clear beyond the possibility of misconception, [153];
propositions clearly established, [157], [158].
Special friends of the Union, claim arrogated by the abolitionists, [34].
Springfield, Missouri, the battle at, [429].
Squatter sovereignty, responsibilities of the authors of, [31];
its origin, [36];
when fully developed, [38];
the theory in its application to Territories, [40].
Star of the West, attempts to reënforce Fort Sumter, [217];
the result, [218].
Statements, unfounded, relative to the election of Provisional President, [236].
State, a suit against, views of Hamilton, [162].
State seceding, A, assumes control of all her defenses intrusted to the United States, [211].
States, The, their separate independence acknowledged by Great Britain, [47];
to whom could they have surrendered their sovereignty, [156];
represented in the Peace Congress, [248];
as States, mentioned in the Constitution seventy times, [130];
ratification by, alone gave validity to the Constitution, [132];
have never been divested of sovereignty, [142].
States Rights party of 1860, its principles, [51].
Stephens, Alexander H., elected Vice-President of the Confederate States, [230];
remarks on the permanent Constitution, [258].
St. John, General, appointed commissary-general of subsistence, [318];
his report, [318].
Story, Judge Joseph, a question asked by him, [132];
its answer, [132].
Stuart, General J. E. B., activity and vigilance in Virginia, [344].
Subjugation; the measures of the United States Government in Missouri designed for the subjugation of the State, [423].
Sumter, Fort, correspondence relative to occupancy of, between Colonel I.W. Hayne and President Buchanan, [219];
state of affairs relative to, after the inauguration of President Lincoln, [267];
pledges given relative to, [269];
proceedings of G. V. Fox relative to reënforcing and furnishing supplies to, [271];
official notification from Washington, [274];
correspondence relative to bombardment of, [285], [286];
do. relative to evacuation of, [288];
the right to claim it as public property is untenable, apart from a claim of coercive control over the State, [290];
the right of the Federal Government to coerce a State to submission, [291];
no hope of peaceful settlement existed, [291];
repeated attempts at negotiation, [291];
met by evasion, prevarication, and perfidy, [291];
the right to demand that there should be no hostile grip pending a settlement, [291];
the forbearance of the Confederate Government unexampled, [292];
he who makes the assault is not necessarily the one who strikes the first blow, [292];
the attempt to represent us as the aggressors unfounded, [292];
"firing on the flag," [292];
idea of the commander of the Pawnee, [292];
remark of Greeley, [293];
the conflict, [293];
nobody injured, [293];
extract from Mr. Lincoln's message, [294];
reply, [294];
a word from him would have relieved the hungry, [294];
suppose the Confederate authorities had consent to supplies for the garrison, [294];
what would have been the next step, [294];
what reliance could be placed on his assurances, [294];
fire upon, opened by General Beauregard, [293];
the conflict, [293];
final surrender, [293];
an incident of ex-Senator Wigfall, [293];
terms of surrender, [293];
bombardment in anticipation of the fleet, [296].
Supremacy of the Constitution, considerations conducing to a clearer understanding of, [150];
declared to be in the Constitution and laws, not in the Government of the United States, [151].
Supremacy, State, the controlling idea in the Confederate army bill, [304];
arms and munitions within the several States were considered as belonging to them, [305];
the forces could only be drawn from the several States by their consent, [305];
the system of organization, [305];
provision for the discharge of the forces, [305];
the act to provide for the public defense, [305];
the law for the establishment and organization of the army of the Confederate States, [306];
wish and object of the Government were peace, [306];
provisions of the act, [306].
Taney, Chief-Justice, remark in the Dred Scott case, [84].
Tariff laws, enacted for protection against foreign competition, [32];
a burden on the Southern States, [32];
a most prolific source of sectional strife, [498];
its early history, [498];
policy of the British Government with the colonies, [499];
a difficulty in the Constitutional Convention, [499];
progress after the formation of the Union, [500];
all laws based on the principle of duties for revenue, [500];
the first time a tariff law had protection for its object, it for the first time produced discontent, [501];
geographical differences between North and South, [501];
legislation for the benefit of Northern manufactures a Northern policy, [501];
the controversy quadrennially renewed, [502];
motion of Mr. Drayton, of South Carolina, [502];
progress of parties, [503];
position of Southern representatives, [503];
other causes, [503];
general effect on the character of our institutions, [504].
Texas, her division, how effected, [16];
compared with California, [16].
Taxation, the system of measures for, [493];
objects of taxation, [494];
direct taxes, [494];
obstacle to the levy of these taxes, [495].
Thayer, James S., speech of, in New York, on the attempt to coerce a State, [254].
Thirteen, Senate Committee of, consequences of their failure to come to an agreement, [199].
Thoroughfare Gap, meat-packing establishment at, [462].
Toombs, Robert, Secretary of State under Provisional Constitution, [242].
Townsend, Colonel Frederick, commands Third Regiment of the enemy's force at Bethel Church, [342];
his account of the combat at Bethel Church, [342].
Travesty of history, statements of a foreign writer, [201];
their absurdity shown, [201].
Trent, The steamer, seizure of our Commissioners on board, [470];
their treatment and restoration, [470].
Tribune, The New York, declaration relative to the coercion of States, [56];
its declarations relative to coercion, [252].
Troops, Southern, rush to Virginia, [300];
also sent by Confederate Government, [300].
Troops of the two armies, exemplification of the difference before either was trained to war, [342], [343].
Union, The, no moral or sentimental considerations involved in the controversies that ruptured the Union, [6].
Union, Dissolution of the, first threats or warnings of, from New England, [12];
ground of opposition stated, [12];
Colonel Timothy Pickering in 1803, [71];
do. in 1804, [72];
its peaceful character, [72];
declaration of Josiah Quincy in Congress in 1811, [73];
action of the House, [74];
the celebrated Hartford Convention, [74];
its proceedings, [74];
published report, [74];
their declaration, [75];
threats of Massachusetts in 1844, [76].
Union, the, how to be saved, views of President Buchanan, [54];
declaration of Senator Calhoun, [55].
Union, A perpetual, provided for in the last article of the Confederation, [98];
a serious difficulty, [98];
danger of failure, [98].
Union, A, necessarily involves the idea of competent States, [128];
was not formed to destroy the States, but to secure the blessings of liberty, [176];
a voluntary junction of free and independent States, [439].
Union of the armies of Johnston and Beauregard, decided at Richmond, [347];
order sent to Johnston, [347].
United States Supreme Court, decision of, flouted, denounced, and disregarded, [85].
Usurpation, tendency to, in the Federal Government, [176];
last effort to stay the tide of, [247];
set on foot by Virginia, [247];
an effort for adjustment, [247];
the Peace Congress, [248].
Vattel, his views on the sovereignty of a state, [145].
Vaughn, Colonel, report of the affair near Romney, in June, 1861, [343];
a notice of Vaughn, [344].
Virginia, made efforts to prohibit the importation of slaves, [4];
first to prohibit, [5];
her cession of territory in 1784, [7];
Ordinance of 1787, [7];
the occasion of her cession of territory north of the Ohio River, [47];
instructions to her Commissioners to the Constitutional Convention, [90];
long debates in her Convention, [108];
the speakers, [108];
her terms of ratification, [109];
her cession of sites for forts to United States, [210];
act of cession, [211];
proposes a convention to adjust existing controversies, [247];
appoints commissioners, [247];
her ordinance subject to the ratification of the people, [299];
forms a convention with the Confederate States, [299];
prompt to reclaim the grants she had made on the appearance of President Lincoln's proclamation, [298];
passes an ordinance of secession, [299];
liable to be invaded from north, east, and west, [300];
the forces assembled in, [340];
divided into three armies, [340];
their positions, [340];
junction possible between first and second, [340];
her history a long course of sacrifices for the benefit of her sister States, [440];
her efforts to check dissolution, [440];
her mediations rejected in the Peace Congress, [440];
required to furnish troops for subjugation, or reclaim her grants to the Federal Government, [440];
one course left consistent with her stainless reputation, [440];
the forces of the enemy around her, [440];
Richmond threatened, [441].
Volunteers, sufficient secured during the first year, [505];
laws relating to the military service, [506].
Walker, L. P., Secretary of War under Provisional Constitution, [242].
Walworth, Chancellor, remarks on the coercion of the Southern States, [255].
War of the Revolution, its causes were grievances inflicted on the Northern colonies, [148];
the South had no material cause of complaint, [48].
War, the late bloody, the theory on which it was waged, [160];
proposition in the Convention to incorporate it in the Constitution, [160];
not seconded, [160].
War between the Slates, who was responsible for? [440];
the probability of, discussed by the people, [227];
opinion that it would be long and bloody, [230].
War-cry, the, employed to train the Northern mind, [29];
its success, [30].
Washington, the great effort of invasion to be from that point, [337];
accumulation of troops, [337].
Washington, George, his use of the word "compact" as applied to the Constitution, [138];
repeatedly refers to the proposed Union as a confederacy, [164];
extracts from his letters, [164].
Washington, John A., killed on a reconnaissance, [436].
Webster, Daniel, remark of, at the death of Mr. Calhoun, [17];
first to revive refuted misconceptions, [128];
a remark of his, [134];
denies the Constitution to be a compact, [135];
on the word "accede," [136];
his concessions, [137];
denied what Massachusetts and New Hampshire affirmed, [139];
on the sovereignty of the Government, [151];
his inconsistent ideas, [152];
his views in 1819, [166];
his speech at Capon Springs, [167];
on the omission of a State to appoint Senators, [179].
Welles, Gideon, statement of proceedings in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet, [276].
Wise, General Henry A., sent to western Virginia, [433];
his success, [433].